WELL APPARATUS
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Abstract
Well apparatus comprises a tower, and a support for supporting well intervention, completion, testing, or drilling equipment, the support being attached to the tower and being movable laterally from a parked position on the tower, where preparation of the equipment can be carried out without occupying an operational area where the equipment is to operate on the well, and an operational position in the operational area, and the support being arranged to be lowered or lifted, the apparatus further comprising a guide mechanism for guiding the support so that as the support is—lowered or lifted it is guided along a path involving lateral movement from the parked position to the operational position in the operational area.
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Citations
46 Claims
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1-26. -26. (canceled)
- 27. Well apparatus comprising a tower, and a support for supporting well intervention, completion, testing, or drilling equipment, the support being attached to the tower and being movable laterally from a parked position on the tower, where preparation of the equipment can be carried out without occupying an operational area where the equipment is to operate on the well, and an operational position in the operational area, and the support being arranged to be lowered or lifted, the apparatus further comprising a guide mechanism for guiding the support so that as the support is lowered or lifted it is guided along a path involving lateral movement from the parked position to the operational position in the operational area.
- 38. A method of executing well intervention, completion, testing or drilling, the method comprising preparing well intervention completion, testing or drilling equipment on a support attached to a tower whilst the support is in a parked position on the tower, so as not to occupy during said preparation an operational area where the equipment is to operate on the well, and moving the support laterally whilst it continues to be attached to the tower to an operational position in the operational area, wherein the support is moved laterally by being lowered or lifted, and by guiding the support so that as it is lowered or lifted it is guided along a path involving lateral movement from the parked position laterally of the operational area to the operational position in the operational area.
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